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Did the most important achievements that happened in academia in any field 30 years ago came from the problems considered most important at that time?
I have no idea how much stuff didn't pan out, but we've been steadily chipping away at AI since the the 40's, and I can't imagine that AI was considered unimportant. We also made gigantic strides on user friendless/interfaces. I'm not sure if academia thought it was important but consumers and businesses thought it was.
AI doesn't seem to be a single problem but a label for a broad field.
How do you know that business thought it was very important? Amount of money invested into improving user experience compared to money invested in other areas?
If we look at Word it seems like it took them till Word 2007 to finally focus on user experience instead of focusing on getting as much features as possible. The didn't get the importance 2 decades ago but only 1 decade ago.
I don't really want to debate definitions. But that is exactly why I want the sorter to break down 'big problems' like AI into 'little problems' like neural networks, search, etc.
Because people keep spending money on marginal user interface improvements that have added up to big differences in user interfaces. The easier the interface is to use, the more people will be able to use it, the more people will buy it.
[Here is a guide to graphic interfaces over time]. (http://toastytech.com/guis/guitimeline.html) Start about 30 years ago when the Macintosh comes out.